Caregiving For Caregivers

Caregivers show up every day—with love, patience, and resilience. Whether you’re caring for a parent, partner, child, or client, this event is for you.

Join us for Caregiving for Caregivers, a free, uplifting event where we gather to share stories, find support, and celebrate the strength of caregivers in our community.

What’s Happening

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Explore & Connect

• Visit resource tables with helpful tools and services for caregivers
• Enjoy fresh blended smoothies from our friends at Pulp Pours and other healthy and delicious snacks!
• Info sessions from caregiver resource groups.
• Yoga Instructor, Nutritionist, and Lifecoach Mark Rudy, MS will demonstrate supported poses for emotional release, intentional breath, and lead a group guided meditation and reflection.

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Caregiving for Families

Join Family Caregiver Alliance and Edgewood for an info session that answers questions about ways families can receive support for their caregiving needs.

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM | Caregiving for Seniors

Join the Institute on Aging and On Lok PACE for an info session about the resources available to help seniors age in place with dignity and independence.

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Caregiving for Caregivers

KALW’s Rose Aguilar, Co Host Lynn Winter Gross of KALW’s “Podcast in Residence” Not Born Yesterday and Entertainment and Media Marketing Professional Mary Nite share personal stories and hold space for an open community conversation about caregiving focusing on the needs of providers and family.

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Wrap-Up & Reflections

Share your personal stories, and take photos with the friends you make at the event.

Continue conversations and make new connections.

Rose Aguilar is the host of Your Call, KALW’s public affairs call-in show and a mentor-editor for The OpEd Project, an organization that works to increase the range of voices we hear in the media.Before joining KALW, Rose published a newsletter about women’s issues and was a reporter and host for CNET Radio, where she covered technology’s impact on society. She’s author of Red Highways: A Journey Into the Heartland. Rose has spent several years caring for her parents in different capacities. Her dad recently passed after a seven-month battle with cancer.

Lynn Winter Gross is the co host of Not Born Yesterday, KALW’s “Podcast in Residence”,  a public relations and marketing professional, career coach and podcast producer. Her media career has spanned from producing videos, hosting a radio show, and conducting media training. As career coach, Lynn lectures and works with public agencies and job seekers. An important part of her work focuses on overcoming the complex problems created by ageism in the workplace.

Previously Lynn was the Director of Communications for the nine colleges of the Los Angeles Community District. She has served on the Board of San Francisco Education Fund, tutors reading and writing in public schools and coached job seekers for multiple organizations including the Jewish Vocational Service. In her free time she enjoys creating art. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Columbia University and the University of Southern California.

Mary Nite is an Entertainment and Marketing Media professional in the music, sports and lifestyle industries. Creative with an entrepreneurial spirit, voice over talent, actress and a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.  She is a passionate health and wellness advocate supporting and guiding family and friends with their health journey.  She creates simple, clean and beautifully vibrant nutrient rich recipes to inspire family and friends to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Hiking is her “Happy Hour” and you can discover her hiking trails and her recipes on her Instagram @the_earth_day_girl.  She is an active member of her local community as the Captain of her Neighborhood Watch and a certified N.E.R.T. (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) Volunteer.

Mark Rudy, MS, now in his sixties, is thriving in life. Avid about living a healthy lifestyle, Mark is passionate about fitness, yoga, life, and leads by example.  He is on a never ending journey to find deeper meaning, and loves sharing his purpose and passion. A student and teacher of Bhakti yoga, he is on a mission to help others to find ease through yoga, breathwork, and meditation. Mark believes in keeping a child like wonder and joy in life which keeps him forever young and fully integrates compassion, understanding, and love to his teachings.

KALW is hosting this event in collaboration with CAREGIVING. In the U.S., more than 105.6 million people are caregivers million family caregivers are unpaid, providing 34 billion hours of care annually, amounting to an estimated $67 billion in personal lost earnings. As caregiving in America faces the twin pressures of an aging baby boomer generation and rising life expectancy, the United States’ long-term care system threatens to tip into crisis. The film will personalize this urgent national issue through stories from caregivers and interviews with experts as they fight to give caregivers the security and support they provide for so many others.

CAREGIVING is streaming now on PBS.org and the PBS app. The nationwide broadcast premiere on PBS stations is June 24, 2025 at 6pm pt/9pm et.

Support for Caregiving is made possible by Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.; Comfort Keepers; Care.com; Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation; Richard King Mellon Foundation; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; Ford Foundation; Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation; NextFifty Initiative (Next50); National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI); PATH Foundation; Care for All with Respect and Equity (CARE) Fund; The John A. Hartford Foundation; and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

This event is being brought to you by PBS/WETA and generous funders of the Caregiving Project. Any donations made here are gratefully accepted and will benefit KALW Public Media directly.

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220 Montgomery St., San Francisco, 2 blocks from BART/MUNI
Doors open at 11:00
️ Program begins at 11:30
🆓 The event is free with an RSVP — and you are welcome to donate what you want

Please note:

• The event space is just to the left of the main entrance to the Mills Building at 220 Montgomery Street
• We recommend taking BART/MUNI, exiting at Montgomery, and walking two blocks north
• Ride-shares can drop off and pick up directly in front of the venue
• If you drive, there are several garages within two blocks of the event location